Root porn!! - Page 23 - Orchid Board

isurus79 · #**221** 08-10-2021, 11:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DirtyCoconuts

this thread is called root porn so this pic is an orgy????

phal and den on a mount loving the summer wet season

Ohhhh, forbidden root porn!!!!

WaterWitchin · #**222** 08-11-2021, 04:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DirtyCoconuts

this thread is called root porn so this pic is an orgy????

phal and den on a mount loving the summer wet season

Aceetobe · #**223** 08-11-2021, 07:42 PM

I always like when the roots are trying to go back to the pot. Makes it a mess to repot, but I think it means they like the media. I pot a lot in net pots lined with palm fiber to keep the media in, and then 50/50 medium bark/large perlite.

Roberta · #**224** 08-11-2021, 08:14 PM

When the roots do that, I solve the "repotting problem" by not doing it. Roots are getting what they want, I'm inclined to not to change it.

isurus79 · #**225** 08-11-2021, 10:30 PM

Nice! I'm with Roberta on that one. I would just plunk it into another pot when it outgrows this one!

WaterWitchin · #**226** 08-12-2021, 10:15 AM

That plant says There's no place like home.

And nice seeing you here again Accetobe! I think I haven't seen you here again since my lurking days.

Thriodien · #**227** 08-12-2021, 01:50 PM

Hi!
I don't know whether this pic's presentable enough for this thread but it surely made my day!
I thought this phal was suffering after repotting as i only saw the blackened roots through the pot and they were always soggy. So i decided i just HAD TO take a peek at what's inside the pot even though it's developing a bud right now.. You can imagine my surprise finding all these green tips instead of a massive root rot

[IMG]

IMG_20210812_170612 by Maria Csanádi, on Flickr[/IMG]

Roberta · #**228** 08-12-2021, 01:54 PM

Those are beautiful roots! And certainly belong in the thread.

Aceetobe · #**229** 08-12-2021, 07:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WaterWitchin

That plant says There's no place like home.

And nice seeing you here again Accetobe! I think I haven't seen you here again since my lurking days.

Wow, I can't believe someone actually remembers me - certainly I was on OSF more than here - but from what I understand that underwent an untimely demise. Glad to be back. Doing the whole parent thing, and started a business, so the orchids took a back burner. Collection went from like a 1000 down to about 75 or so, and reduced from a greenhouse plus a lot of outdoor benches to only 2 outdoor benches and a couple "easy" growers here in San Diego like anceps. I've been expanding a little back into some of the more interesting easy species I used to love (coelia bella, some cyrtochilums). During 2020, I went to Andy's open houses, and never left their empty handed .
Those were the first orchids I had bought in about 10 years.

Lucky for me, but unluckily for my orchids, expecting another kid in January.

WaterWitchin · #**230** 08-13-2021, 09:25 AM

Ha! I started lurking here in 2007, had been casually getting into more than a few phals here around 2001 when youngest daughter left for college. My house was a jungle when I started having kids, then all plants got sidelined until they were late teens. You'll be surprised how your plants exponentially explode again once they've flown the coop.

One of the things I remember about you (being fairly new to orchids) was you always had all these orchids I'd never heard of, with names I couldn't pronounce or spell. A tough learning curve for me, and I still haven't caught up...